Additionally, if they go fully 3rd party, then Xbox Live Gold has to die, and a large perk of Game Pass Ultimate is Xbox Live Gold. So what does Microsoft do to replace it? I can't think of anything right now, which would cause millions to drop back down to Game Pass Regular = Less revenue.
Oh and they'd have to port all of their titles over to PlayStation and Switch...xCloud isn't going to cut it, that is at least 5-10 years away from being a viable option. So add on the additional costs and workflow of porting dozens, perhaps hundreds of titles over to other platforms.
And you'll have some who will drop Game Pass if it doesn't have 3rd parties to fill the quiet periods.
They'd lose the currently millions subbed to Game Pass on Xbox unless they transfer their accounts over to PlayStation/Nintendo.
They' need to significantly expand their Mobile presence, they'd have to carefully transfer the millions of Xbox Game Pass users over, they'd have to MASSIVELY improve on PC, lets use an example, if I became a PC Gamer, I sure as shit wouldn't use Windows Store over Steam which means no Game Pass for me.
Evidently that is the case for a lot of PC users, they hate Windows Store/are entrenched in Steam.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 05 May 2023
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